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Large area quantitative analysis of nanostructured thin-filmsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c4ra16018e
1-D nanostructured thin-films exhibit, amongst other properties, unique mechanical, electrical, thermal, and optical properties. These depend strongly on several aspects, including size, dimension and density. A thorough characterization of a nanostructured film requires extensive time and is a grea...
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | 1-D nanostructured thin-films exhibit, amongst other properties, unique mechanical, electrical, thermal, and optical properties. These depend strongly on several aspects, including size, dimension and density. A thorough characterization of a nanostructured film requires extensive time and is a great effort in terms of human resources. This article presents a facile implementation of an automatic quantitative method for the characterization of nanostructured thin-films using a SEM image-based automatic characterization solution to evaluate the size distribution and surface area (areal density) of assembled structures on a large scale. The implemented solution has been used to evaluate electrochemically deposited zinc oxide nanorod thin-films as well as additional inorganic thin-films. To validate the results, the proposed characterization method was compared with manual small-scale characterization methods.
Proposed and verified method offers an unique quantitative large scale nanostructures' evaluation. |
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ISSN: | 2046-2069 |
DOI: | 10.1039/c4ra16018e |